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affirmative; making a clear assertion or statement of praise, especially one with religious or moral implications..
The just degrees of callings must be herein duly observed; whether in a public way, as pastors of congregations ; or in a private way , as masters of families : whether in the schools , in a mere grammatical way ; or in the church , in a predicatory
Hex's sermon clearly shows a lack of predicatory features, although, according to the colophon, the preacher himself wrote it.
The revelation monologue Trimorphic Protennoia (NHC XIII 1) takes the form of a first-person self-predicatory aretalogy (“I am X,” “I am Y”) or recitation of the deeds and attributes of Protennoia-Barbelo, the First Thought of the Sethian supreme deity.
In a 'predicatory' sense, whatever we say in our natural language about an object defines a property: an object has the property of being such that 'x'.·
In Bird's (2016, 2018) phrasing, we understand dispositions as 'predicatory' properties, to which we are 'ontologically uncommitted' , imbuing them with 'no metaphysical baggage'.
On my account, the distinction between merely true and metaphysically perpicuous disposition ascriptions underlies the often-drawn distinction between metaphysically innocent vs. loaded dispositional talk; commenting on Bird's (2016) similar distinction between predicatory and ontic properties/dispositions McKitrick (2018, p. 67) implicitly criticizes this distinction; for her, an abundantist perspective is preferable, as she considers the alternative to be seriously problematic when it comes to prediction and similarity.
Use predicatory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Predicatory means affirmative; making a clear assertion or statement of praise, especially one with religious or moral implications..
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The just degrees of callings must be herein duly observed; whether in a public way, as pastors of congregations ; or in a private way , as masters of families : whether in the schools , in a mere grammatical way ; or in the church , in a predicatory
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